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11 June – 16 August 2020

From June 11th, the Kunstraum Dornbirn will be presenting a selection of works from the "fat sculptures" series, including the Fat House and the Fat Mini which are the focus of the show. Also on display there will be Butter, a deformed refrigerator sculpture from the Performative Sculptures series, and objects from the Weapons series, two pistols from the companies Walther and Glock, whose forms have been manipulated by the artist. One of his well-known One Minute Sculptures will also be placed in public space in Dornbirn.

His ironic approach to fashion items, everyday objects, food, cars and houses turns the works into significant statements about our consumer behaviour, which are commented on humorously, cryptically and at times sarcastically. Trucks standing on their heads, objects and houses that are squashed or bursting out of shape, oversized pickles—they all spring from the world of ideas of Erwin Wurm.

Engaging in Wurm's permanent and consistent game of irony and existential seriousness and the resulting questioning of art and society leaves hardly any viewer or passer-by untouched and offers opportunities for discussion and conversation. His Narrow House was already on display in the Dornbirn art space in 2011—an impressive metaphor for the proverbial narrowness of the bourgeois middle class in Austria in the 1960s and 1970s and a historical counterpart to the “fat sculptures” series of works. 

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